Monday, April 13, 2009

You can place your order for this kind of a copper spinner ring here and let me know the ring size, and the words you want stamped on it in the "notes to seller" section. Price is $39 + $4 shipping & handling.

My friend Tammy makes the nicest spinner rings I have seen. She makes them in silver, gold-filled, copper, brass, mixed metal. She's the queen of spinner rings! If you look back several months into my blog, I had made a kind of a spinner ring...not really a spinner, but a fluted silver ring with another fitting roller textured ring on top that had a Tourmaline set in it. After seeing spinner rings by Tammy, I wanted to make some too. She helped me with very helpful instructions. Thank you Tammy! :-)))

So this is my version of spinner rings, 1/2" wide....of course, stamped all over with my favorite Kismet stamps! LOL! The words are (if you're wondering), "Whenever I want you, all I have to do, is dream...". Oh I can make up a neat little love story about my beloved so faaaaar away...and me pining for him and singing these words. But nah...no such interesting story. Mr. Beloved is happily sleeping with beloved baby, while I have my kid-free time here.

These words are from the song "All I Have To Do Is Dream" by The Everly Brothers. Its a beyoooootiful song! And the reason I stamped these words is because these were the words that were stuck in my mind when I was making this ring. Know how sometimes some songs just get stuck in your mind? Yeah that. But I didn't mind it, because its a lovely song. Here are the lyrics:

Drea-ea-ea-ea-eam, dream, dream, dreamDrea-ea-ea-ea-eam, dream, dream, dreamWhen I want you in my armsWhen I want you and all your charmsWhenever I want you, all I have to do isDrea-ea-ea-ea-eam, dream, dream, dream

When I feel blue in the nightAnd I need you to hold me tightWhenever I want you, all I have to do isDrea-ea-ea-ea-eam

I can make you mine, taste your lips of wineAnytime night or dayOnly trouble is, gee whizI'm dreamin' my life away

I need you so that I could dieI love you so and that is whyWhenever I want you, all I have to do isDrea-ea-ea-ea-eam, dream, dream, dreamDrea-ea-ea-ea-eam

I can make you mine, taste your lips of wineAnytime night or dayOnly trouble is, gee whizI'm dreamin' my life away

I need you so that I could dieI love you so and that is whyWhenever I want you, all I have to do isDrea-ea-ea-ea-eam, dream, dream, dreamDrea-ea-ea-ea-eam, dream, dream, dream

The spinner is made of 20 gauge copper wire which I have twisted and have inlaid silver solder in the twists. I must say it is a LOT of fun to wear this ring and keep spinning the spinner! Its quite addictive. LOL!

Next I am going to make this in silver and in brass...and find some other words to stamp all over it. Do you have any suggestions? These will be for sale on my Etsy store soon: http://PurpleflowerSwati.Etsy.com/

These rings make great personalized and meaningful gifts because you choose words that have special meaning to you or the person this ring is for.

Saturday, April 11, 2009

Ketchup or lemon juice + salt are very good for cleaning up your tarnished copper jewelry, in case you like it all clean and shiny :-). After cleaning it and washing the ketchup or lemon juice off, polish it well with a handy-dandy sunshine polishing cloth...and its as good as new! :-)

And Tammy added in the comments: Worchestershire sauce or vinegar and salt work great too! Thank you Tammy!

Friday, April 10, 2009

You can place your order here, and let me know the words you want stamped on your copper earrings in the "notes to seller" section.

Copper Earrings: $23 + $4 s&h

You can place your order here, and let me know the words you want stamped on your sterling silver earrings in the "notes to seller" section.

Sterling Silver Earrings: $38 + $4 s&h

My new love -- Copper! I never used to pay much attention to copper, so in love with silver I was. I always used it as practice metal. Sheet or wire. But recently I have been paying attention to copper jewelry made by a few other jewelry artists, and I just loved the look of copper in their work. Today to play more with my new Kismet stamps, and to use my disc cutting tool, I again pulled out a copper sheet....yeah...once more to use as "practice metal". Punched out a few discs, stamped some words on them...then felt like doming them....then felt like making earrings out of them, and I did just that...went ahead and polished them too....and what do you know? I have a new love in my life! COPPER! I just LOVE how pretty its color is. I am in no hurry to antique it. Right now I am in love with its pretty color. It looks pinkish. I could not do justice to it in the photographs, but here they are!

And then I went ahead and made a pair in silver too. However, this is the first time I like my copper ones better than the silver ones.

I stamped these words inspired by a wonderful jewelry artist: Chris Kerr. She often stamps her jewelry with beautiful words. And just by looking at those words in her jewelry I feel really good. So inspired by her work, I stamped words like Love, Faith, Joy, Peace.

These earrings make great personalized gifts because the words you choose are meaningful and special to you or the person these earrings are for.

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

To order your ring, please click the buy now button, and let me know your ring size and the word(s) you want stamped in the "notes to seller section".Price: $40 + $4 s&h

I got my new lowercase Kismet font stamps from Beaducation! The "i am" ring is an order. And I made the "i breathe" ring for me because I have started doing yogic breathing exercises (pranayams), and this ring is to remind me to do my exercise. The breathing exercises have helped a lot with my migraines :-).

These rings are 18 gauge in thickness and 4mm wide. These rings make great personalized gifts with names, or other meaningful words stamped on them. They also make great gifts to yourself to use positive words as affirmations, or any other words that hold special meaning to you.